Empty seats
I was on LBC yesterday morning talking about the empty seats at the Olympics. I’m amazed, from a PR perspective, that LOCOG and others in a position of knowledge have handled the issue so badly. Yes,...
View ArticleReflections on the Olympics
My dad, Barry Davies, was, at London 2012, covering his 19th Olympics as a broadcaster – his 12th Summer Games. A shorter version of this blog was initially written as an Olympic Diary column for the...
View ArticlePremier League blocking fail
I almost missed this story about the mistaken blocking of a whole load of websites, including that of the Radio Times (which I must admit I didn’t know still existed…) as a result of the Premier...
View ArticleAll right, Grandpa!
Interesting to see that four of the five commercial deals announced this week by football clubs are with gambling companies, and the outstanding one is with a gaming company not a million miles...
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BD retiring from hockey commentary
Twenty-five years on from ‘where were the Germans?’ in Seoul, and (astonishing to think) nine years since he commentated on his last football match for Match of the Day (which I couldn’t find on...
View ArticleWhat should sport do about match-fixing?
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and talking about match-fixing this week. But of all the conversations I have had about it, the one that most developed my thinking on this perennial topic came on...
View ArticleIn, out! In, out? There’s more to it than that
Perhaps bizarrely for a blog whose mainstream readership comes in search of nonsense about gambling, the most-read post that I have ever written on A View from Barnes Village was this one following the...
View ArticleDriven by failure
The second or the two articles I’ve been prompted to post ahead of Sunday’s Boat Race is a piece I was asked to write about what the Boat Race means to people involved in it. It originally appeared in...
View ArticleWhile we’re on Ryan Giggs…
I always loved this piece – an interview of dad’s from back in 1993. Clearly a Jamaica Inn-style voiceover, though. This is what YouTube’s automatic captions make of it: 0:16 disrespect 0:38 the...
View ArticleThis is Schoolboy’s Own stuff…
I nominated dad to do the #icebucketchallenge. Here he is doing it, with the additional requirement demanded when I nominated him… If you’re wondering, he’s got my daughter to his left, and my sister...
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